CBS has apologized after its reality show
The Amazing Race angered veterans with an episode featuring Vietnamese communist
propaganda.

Host Phil Keoghan apologized before the start of Sunday’s show for the March 17 episode in which
participants in Hanoi were required to memorize a pro-communist song and visit a downed U.S. B-52
bomber.

The segment brought complaints from some viewers and from veterans groups, including the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.

American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz, a Vietnam War veteran, who wrote to CBS
asking the network to apologize for what he called "its disgraceful slap-in-the face administered
to American war heroes."

The resulting apology from CBS said: “Parts of last Sunday’s episode, filmed in Vietnam, were
insensitive to a group that is very important to us: our nation’s veterans. We want to apologize to
veterans – particularly those who served in Vietnam – as well as their families and any viewers who
were offended by the broadcast. All of us here have the most profound respect for the men and women
who fight for our country."